Eric Blossom wrote:
I see two paths that can get us there:
(1) dynamic partitioning of the flow graph across processors in
SMP/multi-core machines.
(2) m-blocks dynamically scheduled across processors on SMP/multi-core
Once N-cores gets sufficiently large (8 ?), I think we start moving to
a thread / block model.
There's also cases where multi-threading within a block might be
beneficial. Large FFT filters,
for example. There's an "inflection point" where the cost of setting
up a parallel instance of
a filter is well-paid-for by computing it in parallel. But I'm no
expert on such things.
o Is it time to think about moving away from USB for USRP? Perhaps to
PCI-X 2.0, or PCI-Express?
Or perhaps Express Card. That would retain the laptop's portability advantage.
Just looked that up. That's basically PCI-Express and USB2.0 "extruded"
into the designed-for-laptops
form factor. Definitely worth considering.
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